Rumi Ide
CEO
office 3.11, inc.
Journalist. CEO of office3.11, Inc. D. in Nutrition from Nara Women's University and a Master's degree in Agriculture from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo. After working at Lion Corporation's Family Science Research Institute and as a member of JICA's Overseas Cooperation Volunteers in the Philippines, she served as the head of Kellogg's Japan's Public Relations Office. After being shocked by the food waste caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on her birthday, she established office 3.11 Inc. For three years, she served as the head of public relations for Second Harvest Japan, Japan's first food bank. 2016, she gave a lecture on food loss at seven locations in Tokyo with Diet members, which led to the passage of the Food Loss Reduction Promotion Law in 2019. She is the author of several books, including "A Sustainable Way of Life Found in Northern Europe" (Seidosha), "There's Not Enough Food! (Chikuma Shobo), "How to Eat in the Age of SDGs" (Akane Shobo, assigned book for the 68th National Competition for Youth Book Report), "Food Crisis" (PHP Shinsho), "Living by What We Have" (Nikkei Publishing), "The Lie of Expiration Date" (Gentosha Shinsho), "Foods to be Thrown Away! Food Loss: The Lies of Expiration Dates" (Gentosha Shinsho), "Discarded Foods" (Junposha), "Eliminate Food Loss and You'll Gain 5,000 Yen a Month! (Magazine House) and others, with a cumulative circulation of about 150,000 copies. (Magazine House), and other co-authored and supervised books on food loss. She received the 2nd Food Journalist Award in the food culture category, Yahoo! News Individual Author Award 2018, and the Director-General of the Consumer Affairs Agency Award at the Food Loss Reduction Promotion Awards in 2020.